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The bleep turned off, still, the one that warned him he's being pursues aren't. The rear-facing camera shown him just that there's at least 25 of giant flying mechanical bees -if he could even describe- flying at near subsonic velocity.

He managed to prevail so far, if only because he's been creative in using the terrain. However, in open sea like this, they're far, far more mobile and soon he found himself being surrounded.

Strange enough, they didn't attack to destroy, all their effort so far is to immobilize him with sheer number -in other words, a dog pile. He was glad, either way, and seems like his gamble had paid off.

Multiple humanoid mecha launched from the direction of I.S. academy, they changed their course abruptly soon, toward his direction.

"[This is Maya Yamada, you are breaching through our airspace, please surrender immediately]"

That's quite harsh, and yet, he couldn't feel hostility in that statement. Besides, the voice is so soft, that he could be addicted. "[This is Dan Gotanda, my residence has been attacked and for whatever reason they tried to capture this unit and me]"

"[Dan, Dan is that you?]"

Ichika? Ichika is there? he felt like he's in heaven, hearing his best friend's tomboyish, subdued voice "Yes it's me, Ichika is that you? I'm glad"

"You have a lot to explain, but we had to get rid of them first"

Dan clenched his teeth, with the way those bandits designed, there's no way of putting a human inside, he knew this form the first glance, and he had taken at least two of them and found that's indeed the case.

"Shoot to kill, they're unmanned, no room for pilot"

He bent his mechanical knees to create asymmetric air drag and made a very fast sliding movement, turning 180 degree in an instant. He unleashed his one and only weapon so far, an over-sized large caliber handgun.

The first and second shot managed to hit, throwing one of these drones off balance, subsequently sunk and explode underwater. the rest managed to adapt to his amateurish attack pattern, and he had to thrown the empty magazine into the canister in his hips, who swapped the magazine with a fresh one mechanically.

A brilliant white flash soared just above his robot's head, the speed of which is quite amazing. It's somewhat larger than most I.S. model he knew form magazine and games, but he could see the human that control it.

A man? He thought unbelievably, A real, male I.S. pilot?

The sole guy managed to destroy the formation of the drones by sheer balls alone, the rest took this to their advantage to attack the distraught horde by delivering a systematic barrage with their weapon.

As soon as they lost three more members, the drones decided to ran out of the battlefield using very powerful booster, accelerating upward like missile, and disappear with twinkles.

"You cannot be bad at watching a movie. You cannot be bad at listening to an album.
...But you can be bad at playing a videogame, and the game will punish you and deny you access to the rest of the videogame."

Dan can't help but amazed at the brutality of the male-piloted I.S. unit, over seven feet tall, the exaggerated wings and limbs made it all the more striking, compared to more elegant and fitting the other I.S. are.

Meanwhile, when it comes to the pilot, he don't know, but sense something familiar. There he could pull some line, his great resemblance to Ichika and Chifuyu, mainly, although not quite identical.

Considering the slow speed of their flight, Dan has little worry and delivered a though command to open the cockpit, letting his head and upper chest exposed to the wind "Hi, thanks for the help"

"No problem, but after this is what problematic"

Dan was puzzled, did this guy just read his mind? And why did he act so friendly? Not that Dan has any problem with it, but the way he looked at him is different, it's quite like... this guy had know him well.

"How could you say that?" he mocked a disbelief, although he is not dumb and knew the answer.

"No offense, but my entry here is not exactly smooth either, this machine is considered illegal copy, in fact. But I got some leeway because of... menial stuff"

Dan could read the unimpressed confession, clearly, he referred to the fact that he's probably the only dude that can use Infinite Stratos. Dan will have much more trouble, since he doesn't have same excuse.

His attention switched to Ichika, who looked at him with great worry projected from those innocent red eyes. He knew better than to mistake it from anything else, but still, he didn't want it, so he slipped a little lie with a smile "I can stand that look for eternity"

"... what the heck" she pouted, faint blush drawn on her cheek "D-don't you even dare... we had decided"

"That's not what you said back then when-"

"Dan~" the hue of her skin increasingly red, but at the same time, she cracked a pleased smile.

the red haired man laughed "See? You're smiling"

Thankfully, Dan didn't switch his attention, else he'll caught the guy in white I.S. hold his scream and turned pale, before plunged himself into sea. Can't blame him, anyway, who didn't surprised if your female counterpart has special relationship with your own best friend?

Generation Extended/Plus: A category of IS equipped with higher generation technology. The official use of the term only begin after Raphael Revised is introduced. Other IS included under here is obviously Byakushiki

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Main character's name is something common, Alfred. He dislike socializing because he is lazy and think that his time is better off watching blank computer screen. Also because he is nice guy (though not that nice since he does hold grudge)...who is rather passive and non-confrontational which is kind of subverted when he is controlling a Plush toy....who is cynical and tend to tempt fate a lot.

He work for a company called New Edge Aspiring Research (New Edge (what people usually refer them by...)

The following below are their creation which only the company has the knowledge and technical specialty to make and install them on to the IS (without them being rejected by the IS core):

Self-optimizing Equalizer Package, Optimizer: Pilot's combat data are stored inside the Equalizer which are retrieved when the said pilot are using the Equalizer, when the data is retrieved, the Equalizer would optimized itself to suit the pilot. Since it is an equalizer, it can be removed and place in another IS core, allowing similar 1st Shift performance regardless of the core being use.
Weakness is obvious: One-off ability is impossible if you keep changing cores and not allowing the IS core to gain enough experiences with the pilot.

Ex-Alt (Extended Alternative)/Exalt package is technically Optimizer taken to logical extreme. This category of IS took an alternative path to 4th Gen. ExAlt equalizer package function similar to 4th gen's fold-out however, since the technology is not integrated into the IS frame itself, it means that Equalizer take up BUS Slot and it requires unit be a little more specialized due to all BUS slot being used up and unable to take in anymore equalizer.

Yamato Nadeshiko/ YN: A defensive technology generate a special wave frequency which neutralize Barrier Void ability, not only that, it also force Barrier Void technology to continue to consume energy from the IS so long as Barrier Void ability remain active. Named Yamato Nadeshiko out sheer irony, the YN stands for Yukihira Neutralizer as it is deigned specifically to counter Japan's Yukihira(barrier void) technology, rendering Japanese IS less of a threat and their Yukihira into dead weight. Why "less of a threat" rather than "not a threat" completely? Because a blunt sword can still kill people..... It only just take longer time to do so.

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any idea for a funny manly name for that overly compensated Man-machine?

Also should I make it into an IS or should I just leave it as a machine created by the Male pilot out of scrap metal (to increase testosterone level by 50)?

Edit: I wonder how many people would get the joke on the Company's name.

"You cannot be bad at watching a movie. You cannot be bad at listening to an album.
...But you can be bad at playing a videogame, and the game will punish you and deny you access to the rest of the videogame."

Imagine reality as multiple cloths. Each plane, each axis is one piece. Now drop a rock on that cloth, it kind of warps toward the rock right? When you have a mass great enough, all these spatial fabrics also warps towards the mass. That's gravity.

I was talking the practical application... though inversion of AIC sound really scary, and all too plausible in I.S. verse. While I.S. and their pilot will not be affected much due to it's PIC rebelling, imagine that poor APC caught in the radius

That aside, the practical uses are actually plenty, if not inefficient and can probably be replaced with an equally effective measure with less overkill and much less chances of screwing yourself over.